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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-28
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-28

Praise not thy work, but let thy work praise thee,
For deeds, not words, make each mans memory
stable;
II what thou dost Is good, its good all mon will see;
Musk by lis smell is known, not by Its label.
Saudi.
The first annual festival OF the Childrcn's
Christmas club will be given today at the
new Nicely building, corner Of Main and
Mccall streets. The program arranged
is as follows:
selections """'",'".'r.., ."",.,' Orchestra.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Go Well Together.

The two items given below 90 pretty
well together-the first from the di-
rectors of the Vermont colony for
Dakota, the second an item of news
from an exchange. They seem some
how to hint at different possibilities:
To one and Al, Greeting and Good Id
Cice:-Take the spring boom and go with the
tide. 1.-THE first there, the first served"
vites you to her rich, free prairie land, where,
with industry and frugality, you can surely
obtain competency for yourselves and
your posterty - where free HON es, free
farms, wealth, health and happiness await
you in the greatest and grandest country
the sun ever shone upon; a land of grass,
grain and gold. The bounties from it's
richer than garden soil have made Dakota
the marvel of the century, with its 100000
people, its 5000 miles of railroads and its
3O0OO,0O0 bushels of wheat annually, and
yet a territory! What grandeur is before it
as a state.
A BURLINGTON Uowa) insurance company
has awarded a prize of 5000 to Rochester
On. " man for the best design for a tornado
cave. 1t is made underground, connected
with the dwelling by a tunnel, and consists
of a room seven by twelve feet, walled with
brick and the roof supported by iron arches
and beams. The strength of the roof is an
essential part of the protection as cyclones
often level large trees on caves, which they
break in, inclosing the inmates in living
tomb. An exit flush with the surface is
provided on the outside for the escape of
inmates if the dwelling is burned as it fire.
quently is after tornado. The cost of such
cave varies from $500 to $500, viii oh it
would seem must place it out of the reach of
those who have not money enough to move
away from locality where such safety de-
vices are required. At the best a cyclone
cellar gives inadequate protection, unless
its owner and all his family remain con-
stantly at home to enjoy its advantages.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

1t is probably true that most farmers
cannot afford to pay higher wages than
they do now, and have therefore no
reason to expect to get the best kind of
help, except by lucky accident. The
farmer can give home, shelter and
board to his employees, which in other
kinds of business the latter must seek
for themselves. These advantages are
not appreciated as they should be.
Many young man finds employment
in the city at wages which seem liberal
as compared with what he could earn
on the farm. But afterhe has paid for
board, lodging, washing and the more
expensive clothing he is obliged to sup
ply himself with in the city, little of his
earnings will remain. Aside from all
danger of vicious indulgence, the city
is poor place for young man to save
his earnings. There are thousands of
ways for spending money in cities not
wrong in themselves but out of place
when they take from young men and
women the capital which they need for
better purposes. On the farm, though
nominal earnings are smaller, there is
less temptation to spend them foolishly.
III is lule Ill lncSe udyS W Idlk VI hiring
men to superintend farm work. If the
farmer is unwilling or unable to do this
himself he had better at once give up
farming, unless he pursues it as an am
ateur-for the pleasure afforded rather
than for the profits secured. There is
no eye like the masters for getting en-
ployes to do faithful work. And if there
is to be any profit in ordinary farming
at present or prospective prices of
produce the farmer must himself work
with his men. Not even the great saw
ing of improved harvesting machinery
releases the farmer from the necessity
of helping in the harvest-field. Practi-
cally, it makes it more necessary, be-
cause it is almost impossible to hire
men who can run these complicated
machines to good advantage. The re-
suit is not only the breakage and pre-
mature wearing out of implements, but
delays in the harvest-feld, expensive
enough in keeping men idle, and doubly
so in waste of the crop through delay
in securing it.-American Cultirotor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
A New Treatment for ROup.

Burn alum on the stove until it can
be mashed to fine powder. Having
removed the sick hens to building by
themselves, take the patient under the
arm, open the mouth and sprinkle the
alum on every part of the canker, and
with feather wet the whole mouth
with tincture of iodine. Repeat three
or four times day in bad cases, being
sure to attend to the opening of the
windpipe first. The canker will begin
to loosen in day or two and may be
removed with the blunt end of quill
as soon as it can be done without caus-
ing bleeding. When portion of the
canker is removed apply iodine on the
place where it came from, but do not
put on the alum. Do not get dis
couraged if the canker grows again,
but keep at it, and after removing the
canker feed soft food.-E, b. Smith.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Plain Talk from a Hired Man.

Who is to blame for the poor kind of help
nowadays? l take care of a gentleman's
place in the country, and he is one who
knows how to use man as he himself
would like to be treated. We hear a great
deal said about the dignity of labor, though
mostly by men who take hold of the light
end of the log. Well, if labor is elevating,
how is it that the hired man gets the poor
est quarters to live in on the farm? | have
worked on farm where / could count the
stars through the roof of my bedroom and
shovel snow after each snowfall out of the
hole that served for window. At another
place l could have picked from my bed
enough bed-bugs to make a square meal for
a dozen chickens if | had stayed long
enough to do so. No wonder the better
class of help leave the farm to work in fac
tories. They may not average as much
wages in the long run as on farm, but they
can hire as good room as they want and
feel like men. Is there anything refining
about working sixteen hours a day-eating
your meals alone in the back kitchen
crawling up after the days work is done
into the attic by means of an old ladder in
getting baked in summer and frozen in
winter? If there is any, fail to see it. If a
few of the hired men were to contribute
their experiences to The Homestead it would
make mighty interesting readng.-W. b.
CunniSon, CorddUale, Mass
There are doubtless two sides to this
as to most other questions-a differ
IN tN1n 20 -
difference in hired men-and there
always will be. While time lasts there
will be mean skunks for employers as
well as honorable, fair-minded men,
and miserable, lazy shirks as well as
smart, honest hired men; and there
can be no general rule formulated on
the premises except that each class
will show out their natures.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

has produced greater number of trotters
with records of 2;30, and also greater mum.
Der with records regardless of time, than
any horse now living in Vermont, except
ing his sire, "Daniel Lambert" abraham "
is the sire of Frank" (210N, kitty
Cook" (2:2G, "Belle Shackett" (2:27D,
"Alice" (2:2S) and pearl" (pacer, 2:29l),
the dams of which all trace directly to
CHIPS Black Hawk" Billiards. " Cassius
M. Clay" produced the same number of
2:3O performers as abraham" but did not
get so many with slower records. He is
recorded in the american Trotting Register
as by ID" Cassius NJ. Clay Jr." (Jones 1sD,
dam, the Judge Perkins Mare, /" by pacing
horse from Maine, said to be son of the
old Eaton Horse" Jones 1st, " Cassius
NJ. Clay, Jr.," was by "Cassius NJ. Clay"
son of Henry Clay" dam by Kissam's
Bellfounder;" second dam claimed to be of
Messenger" Decentralization CUitiUdtor.
We believe "Abraham " is kept now
in Montpelier and may be seen at
" Fairvale Farm" about two miles from
the village.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Poultry on the Farm.

Poultry on a farm are as much
necessity as cows or hogs. What would
many of the dishes which farmers
wives and daughters prepare for the
family be if it were not for the hen
fruit they contain? But poultry, to be
profitable, should run at large. They
are good foragers, will destroy vast
numbers of injurious insects, and at
certain seasons of the year should be
allowed to run on every part of the farm,
including the garden. No better place
can be found for hen and chickens in
the spring of the year than the garden.
AS soon as the chicks are able to run
about, confine the hen in a coop in the
garden sufficiently open to allow the
chicks to run in and out, changing
the same to fresh place daily, and the
chicks will then live principally on in
sects. The benefits to be derived from
so doing are great saving of food, a
healthier and more rapid growth of the
chicks, the garden kept clear of in
sects, and better fruit and vegetables is
the result. That there is difference
in the various families of fowls none
will dispute, and the question then is,
Which is the best Tor the farmer TO
keep-that is, which are the easiest to
raise and return the most profit? Among
the different breeds of fowls some per-
sons prefer one and some another. We
must say we have found the Black
breasted Red Game to be good. They
are not only as hardy as any others, but
are good layers, good mothers, good
foragers, and all but in size among the
best table fowls. Their eggs are of
fine flavor, and as to their pugnacity,
they are not more pugnacious than
some of the other breeds. Next to
these we place the old-fashioned
Dominique. We are now writing for
the farmer, and we would say to him
that with fowls, as with everything
else, it pays to raise the best, and that
fowls require as good and as comfort
able quarters in the winter as any other
stock on the place. baltimore Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

toned in regard to it, He was ungentle-
manly, presumptuous and insolent.
The Boston Journal speaks thus of
the matter:
Mr.. Gilbert is a farmer and has been sup
posed to be one of the most progressive ag-
riculturists of the state, and 1t would hardly
seem that he would do otherwise in the cir
cumstances than what he believed the stat
utes fully justified him in doing. This is
the one point where he and DR.. Bailey
failed to agree in their work. Each inter-
preted the authority given to the Cattle
Commission in a totally different manner.
DR.. Bailey wanted to pursue the disease
and seek its determination as soon as pos
sible. Mr.. Gilbert refused to do anything
till officially notified of its existence by
the municipal authorities.
The bill which has passed the legis-
lature providing for the extirpation
of tuberculosis, pleuro-pneumonia and
other contagious cattle diseases leaves
no doubt in regard to what is the duty
of the Cattle Commissioners in respect
to the disease that is now agitating the
farmers of the state. 1t is, perhaps,
the first bill passed by any legislature
in the country in which tuberculosis is
so closely classified with pleuro-pneu-
monia and other well-known contagious
diseases, and the sweeping character of
its provisions are understood to be
largely due to the influence of Mr..
Hall c. Burleigh, who has been en-
gagged for a number of years in the
importation of Hereford and other
brands of cattle from Europe. The
report of the legislative committee for
the investigation of tuberculosis at the
College farm will be an interesting doc
ument because of the conclusions it
will probably contain. 1t is not likely,
however, that it will be signed by all
the members of the committee, because
Mr. Libby, and perhaps other mem
bers, have openly manifested disbe-
lief in the dangerous character of the
disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Questions Answered.

G.. L., HUNTINGTON The only i'm
portant pension law passed by the last
congress which was approved by the
President was the one granting pen
sion of IS a month to soldiers who
served in the Mexican war and the
same rate of pension to the widows of
such soldiers.
L. E., CHELsEA.-The widow of a
soldier who died in the service, or
since his discharge of disease con-
tracted while in the service, or from a
disease resulting from a disease con-
tracted in the service, is entitled to
pension of Sl2 a month, whether she
was married to the soldier before or
after his service in the army.
/. G.. E., MARsHFIELD.-The calling
for testimony in pension case after it
has been appealed to the secretary of
the interior is a favorable indication.
The commissioner of pensions may
have not seen the papers in the case to
which you refer until he was requested
by the secretary of the interior to re-
port the case to him for review, and
may have discovered that with little
more testimony the claim could be al
furnished, is satisfactory, the pension
will undoubtedly be granted.
w. R., N.-Congressman
Stewart, in his published letter in sup
port of the dependent pension bill, uses
the expression: "Under the bill total
disability is prerequisite to enjoyment
of its provisions" The stumbling
block is the total disability. Ex-
Governor Stewart understood it to
mean, no doubt, person wholly I'M
able to labor, while the word total dis
ability in the pension office means a
disability only as great as that caused
by anchylosis of ankle or wrist. Total
was used to signify the highest pension
granted when that rate was IS a month.
Then pension of SIS month was
given for the loss of limb and this
raised to SIS, and SIS was allowed for
any disability equivalent to the loss of a
hand or foot. The latter rating was
ability of the applicant. The word
total was still retained to denote
the rate of IS month and was for
time a disability equal to that caused
by stiff elbow, and then later it signi-
fled disability equivalent to stiff
ankle or wrist. Such use of the term
total " in the pension office has not
only created much confusion. but has
worked great injustice to claimants.
When described as being one-half or
one-fourth disabled, they have been
granted pension of "a or 81 a month,
when in all fairness they should have
received So month for one-half dis
ability
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
agricultural.
Mr.. Morrill, Explains.

The other day, in discussing the Hatch
agricultural experiment station bill, Senator
Morrill,, the author of the original agricultural
college bill, explained what the object of that
bill was. He said it was never intended
that students at these colleges should all
graduate as farmers. The colleges were in
tended for the double purpose of teaching
agriculture and the mechanic arts, without
excluding opportunities for acquiring lib
eral education.-Ne1o England Farmer.
Which we hope will finally quiet
some of those restless souls who, de-
spite the plain wording of the bill,
giving its intent as plainly as Mr.. Nor
ribs explanation does, have followed
the University of Vermont and State
Agricultural College with senseless
bowls about transportation and en-
bezzlement because the College did not
graduate farmers rather than scholars.
To our mind, the College should
teach those branches relating to
agriculture and the mechanic arts"
not excluding other professions, which
is Just what the bill says, and what
we believe the College has done to the
best of its ability with the light it has
had. When people get rid of the idea
that boy can learn practical farming
at college they will be better able to
arrive at a clearer view of the intent
and scope and limits of a college edu-
cation
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
An Incident of the War.

AT meeting of the Loyal Legion, the
other evening, | was reminded of one
of the most peculiar incidents of the
war, which has never been published.
While we were before Atlanta we had
pushed up our lines close against the
breastworks of the confederates until we
were within few wards of each other.
There were two brigades separated
only by ravine. Every time man
showed himself above his works he was
peppered at. Down in the ravine was
a spring, and both sides used to 90
there at night to get water, nobody
daring to approach it by daylight. One
day a heavy fog fell over the camp, and
every man at once rose up, glad to
stretch and be able to walk around
without being shot at. Some of the
men were cooking their meat and boil
ing their coffee, and others walked
around on the works. Suddenly, with
out an instant's warning, a gust of
wind came up and blew the fog away
about as quickly as you could snap your
finger, and there were the men of the
two opposing brigades out in plain
view upon their works, so exposed that
a volley would have moved down half
of them. But no one was prepared for
the emergency--not gun in hand and
no one made an effort to arm himself.
Thus both sides faced each other in
suspense. Then, by some ineXplicable
impulse, party of the confederates
which had evidently started to the
spring, pots in hand, continued leis-
urely on their way. | do not know
why, but our men did not modest them,
and some even went down to the
spring themselves. What follows seems
strange. A tacit truce was declared,
and during the few days that the two
brigades continued to face each other
across the ravine it continued, and not
shot was fired by the men of one side
at the men of the other. They would
fire upon the brigades at either side
and diagonally, but never at each other,
and the men would meet in the raviue
to trade and converse. l tell this narra-
tive to show that there was no bitter
ness between the individuals of the two
sides. Both were fighting for the
cause.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Soldiers Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To John Hatch, West Randolph, $40
a month and $40 arrears; Jacob Bar
ton, Johnson, an increase from S4 to
$40 month and $50 arrears: David
G. Reynolds Ga dependent father), JEFF
fersonville, S12 month and 81 $50 ar
rears; John A. Smith, Jr., Braintree,
an increase from "a to IS month; J ohm
F. Tucker, Chelsea, an increase from
So to S12 month; William G.. Bundy,
Morrisville, S12 month and 81 ,977
arrears; Joel O. Bailey, Holland, Sl4 a
month and 50, l59 arrears; William
Hall, Bellows Falls, 50 a month and
$117 arrears; John w. Williams, Rut-
land, restored at "a month and SlG3
arrears; Jacob II. Dodge, johnson, re-
stored at S4 month and 800 arrears.
Mitchell Wescom, Eden, restored at SIS
month and $131 arrears; Cornelia A.
Flanders, North Tunbridge, Sl2
month,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

DAYS HORSE POWDER, before the
public for many years, is now the
farmers standard remedy.
The average kitchen furnishes many
dyspeptic patients for DR.. Bulls Balti-
more Pills to cure.
DIR. BULLS BABY SYRUP will quickly
relieve and cure all pains that baby
hood is subject to-
NONE so good-DreXel's Bell Co.
logne. Twenty-Five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Stations.

A subscriber wishes to know what stallion
in Vermont ranks second as producer of
2;30 performers, and also what horse has
produced the second largest number of trot-
tiers with records slower than 2:30. We be-
lieve that abraham" by Daniel Lam
bert" dam, Polly Cook" by" Hills Black
Hawk" second dam by young Sir
Charles, by Sir Charles, son of " Duroc,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

In view of the fact that this is an era
of progress, and q time of sharp COM
petition in the various channels of bust
ness life, it is necessary, if he wishes to
maintain his rightful place in the race,
that the farmer should become a practi-
cal accountant. 1t is essential in farm
ing, as well as in other kinds of bust
ness, that we know the sources from
which our profits come and also the
places where our losses are to be met.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
ADVERTISEMENTS.
March April May

Everybody needs and should take good
spring medicine for two reasons
1st The body Is now more susceptible to
benefit from medicine than at any other season.
3D. The impurities which have accumulated
in the blood should be expelled, and the sys-
TEN given tone and strength, before the pros
trating effects of warm weather are felt.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best spring medi-
cine. A single trial will convince you of its
superiority. Take IL before 1t is too late.
The Best Spring Medicine
~ take Hoods Sarsaparila for a. spring
medicine, and find 1t just the thing. 1t tones
up my system and makes me feel like differ
ent man. My wife takes 1t for dyspepsia, and
she derives great benefit from it. She says it
is the best medicine she ever took" F. C.
TURNER, Hook g. Ladder No. 1, Boston, Mass.
Last spring l was troubled with boils,
caused by my blood being out of order. Two
bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparilla cured me. /
can recommend it to all troubled with afIec-
tions of the blood" j. SCHOOL, Peoria, Ill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

A NEW song is entitled "Autumn
Leaves" The title is inopportune, as
autumn left some months ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

THE question about extending a call
turns sometimes on the age of the par
son; the question of accepting it, on
the parsonage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
NOTICE.

The undersgnedis DESTROYS of selling the Wooden
Mill or Factory at North Calais No lO) said mill
stands at the outlet of two ponds The lower pond
covers one hundred fifty acres, upper, one hun
dred seventy acres The ponds are forty rods apart
with stone dams and never-failing water. said mill
is thirty by forty feet In size, three stories high,
with six looms -four narrow looms and two broad
one factory set of machines, two fuling mills one
spinning Jack, and all other machinery In good
running order Immediate possession given. Terms
easy. JONAS q. ORMSBEE, Proprietor.
North Calais, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

WOMEN suffering from aching sides
and back, apply Hop Plaster /; 1t has
soothing properties.